Comment Re:Limited coding isn't everyone's goal (Score 2) 69
Building complex apps without coding doesn't seem like a useful goal. At some point you have to express the program logic and coding has always proven to be the best way.
The dividing line between graphical tool and actual code seems to have been a shifting one over the years. So when you go to a new environment or language where there's a substantial GUI component to building an app, the desire to see it all in code is strong. What actually happens when you add that button? I expect to be able to do it either through code of GUI and if they can't tell me what the GUI did in code, then I'm left clueless as to the underpinnings and so it becomes hard to think through the implications of design decisions.
I tried Swift recently. Swift was easy enough. But Swift+Xcode was impenetrable.
My micro processor prof insisted that C was an abomination and that code was easier to follow in native assembly. (Mostly Motorola, some TI)
There is a big chunk of people who have no desire to see the assembler, or the massively abstract C++ code that created it. Anyone who uses Access for example. I had a tool Palm Toolbox that made simple apps for PalmOS way back when. It was limiting, because I know better, but you could do a lot without ever looking at the real code.
Be prepared for multiple variations of the Fart Machine!
